Posted on 05/30/2015 7:30:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Earlier this month, a squirrel in the Bronx bit an MTA worker's finger, sending her to the hospital. Now, it appears squirrels have developed a taste for salty, delectable people flesh—a second MTA worker has been attacked by a squirrel, this time in the train car of a Coney Island-bound Q train. It's unclear whether the same squirrel was coming back for seconds, or if the city's squirrel population has teamed up with the coyotes to rid the city of all non-littering humans.
This week's squirrel-sourced aggression occurred at around 9:20 a.m. on Thursday, near the Cortelyou Road Q station. The Post reports that the squirrel ran through the Q train's window before setting its sights on the train operator. Luckily, passengers were able to help her shoo the squirrel out, though it's probably since burrowed a home for itself in Flatbush, biding its time until another unsuspecting human sticks a finger near it. The extent of the train operator's injuries are unknown.
That's just what crossed my mind last Tuesday when I was playing the last hole of golf at a municipal course with an after-work 9-hole league. There was a very "aggressive", i.e. non-timid, squirrel at the ninth tee that apparently had been making a meal of the "tough" plastic armrests of the bench there. It did not retreat at our approach, so I opened my umbrella, and it went behind a tree. In less than a minute, though, it came back and resumed gnawing on the bench. I still don't know what to make of it.
Set live traps, round up the offending squirrels and ship them to Baltimore.
~~Squirrel Lives Matter~~
I would take squirrels over half the population of that city. Especially the politicians there...
Has NYC surrendered to the squirrel army yet?
Will they have to take rabies shots? I got bitten by a stray cat one time and my doctor threatened me with shots unless I found the damned cat and quarantined it. (I had gone in for the infection from the cat bite.) I had to find the stupid cat and put her up as my house guest for 8 more days (10 total). I named her Jezebel!!
Squirrelnado?
Nully has the image of the squirrel eating a bird.
And the psycho squirrel image, and..
Yum...
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Hmmmm... so, was it a squirrel that ate the baby blue jay in my driveway?
There was nothing left but lots of feathers.
I blamed the neighbors over weight cat
Squirrelnado - coming to a theater near you.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the park.
Death awaits you with nasty, big, pointy teeth. That’s the most foul, cruel, bad tempered rodent I ever set eyes on. That squirrel’s got a viscous streak a mile wide. I’m warning you.
I’m okay with that.
:)
I blame the use of “squirrel proof bird feeders”.
The frustration has driven them mad.
It’s the Squirrel Revolution.
I knew this day would come.
;)
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